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My wife: did you get high and watch samurai movies again Me, crying: yes My wife: did he die because he was burdened by the very code he lives for again Me, my voice breaking into a sob: yes

My poem in The Hub this weekend is for Mother’s Day. Here’s to all the mothers out there — and their brave chicks!

My dad and Kevin Lynch have a wise piece of advice for PM Mark Carney in the @GlobeandMail: prioritise, delegate, and fix the fundamentals. globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281719…

As an experiment, I'm going to try NOT looking at who's in the new Cabinet and then checking in six months from now to see who among them I'll have heard of, as a diligent consumer of Canadian media.

what a dramatic turn of events

Literature is back. We hit the bottom. Now that the world is standing on the edge of chaos, we are turning to the great books. Not to escape, but because we need humanism to help us see things clearly now. commonreader.co.uk/p/literature-i…

My poem in The Hub this week was inspired by my older son's track meet on Wednesday. There is something about high-end sprinting that makes you proud to be a human being.

Jack Mitchell The Hub Beautiful poem. Didn't know the Hub had poetry. I've got to subscribe.

ICYMI: ‘A small step in the right direction’: Michael Chong 🇨🇦 on the importance of the Reform Act as Parliament resumes FREE 3-month Hub subscription: thehub.ca/free-trial/ Full episode here: thehub.ca/podcast/video/…

People are singing the royal anthem of Canada, God Save The King!

Vive le Roi !

Michael Chong (Michael Chong 🇨🇦): Democratic renewal in Canada starts with Parliament FREE 3-month Hub subscription: thehub.ca/free-trial/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/05/27/mic…

My poem in The Hub this weekend is a simple ask to the Edmonton Oilers : win it.

The Hub's poetry of the week by Jack Mitchell.

Here are the opening stanzas of the very clever "Honda Odyssey" by Carla Galdo from the "Poets of the University of St. Thomas" special issue.

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." Samuel Johnson

My poem in The Hub this weekend is a tribute to my dear wife, Luba, on our recent 15th wedding anniversary. It's also in a stanza form I've been experimenting with, a variation on the Common Metre (ABAB, 8-6-8-6) that I've been using these last three years: now it's ABAB

TIL that my boys and I, enthusiastic baseball players, are related to one of 268 Canadians to have ever played in the major leagues: Cooney Snyder (baseballhistorydaily.com/2012/10/22/coo…), their great-great-great-grandfather's cousin, who played 17 games for the NL Louisville Colonels in 1898.

Misinformation on X can be hard to spot, but one sign of it is the combination of outlandish claims and provocative pictures, doing viral numbers.

WORLD RECORD🇨🇦SUMMER MCINTOSH HER THIRD WORLD RECORD IN FIVE DAYS Swimming sensation Summer McIntosh has just broken her own 400m individual medley record in a time of 4:23.65 That caps off one of the greatest swimming meets in the history of the sport. Remarkable.